Weekly Roundup: July 23rd
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
And the rate of violent crime is sharply up in some cities across the United States. There are no simple answers about what's driving the increase, but it it is certain to be a central issue in the Republican effort to retake majorities in Congress next year.
This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Alan Hutchison in Mesa, Arizona. I just hit 70,000 words in the novel I'm writing, |
| 0:07.2 | which means I've reached the whatever made me think this was a good idea part of the process. |
| 0:13.2 | This podcast was recorded out. Keep going. Keep going. It is it is one oh six Eastern on Friday, July 23rd. |
| 0:22.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it and I may have decided to take up woodworking. |
| 0:28.6 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:31.3 | I wonder what I wonder what it's about. I think it's good. You know what? I'm working on a long-term |
| 0:39.9 | project and I currently am an hour longer than I need to be so I appreciate his space in the creative |
| 0:45.6 | process. Editors, you need an editor. You definitely do. I hate to admit. It's the NPR Politics |
| 0:53.2 | podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House. I'm Claudi Grisales. I cover Congress. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm Domenico Montenarro, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. So the House Committee investigating |
| 1:02.6 | the January 6th attack on the US Capitol had a bumpy week this week and given how things have |
| 1:07.9 | gone so far with this that probably was not a surprise, but it is worth taking a step back today |
| 1:14.0 | and talking about that because it says a lot about how toxic and broken the House seems to be right |
| 1:18.6 | now and how partisan factions seem to be overriding every other impulse in politics and in Congress |
| 1:25.8 | right now. So Claudia, let's start with this. What was supposed to happen? You know, originally and |
| 1:31.8 | then with this latest version of the committee plan. Yeah, it feels like going back to ancient |
| 1:36.3 | history. When we go back to the beginning of this, it was just towards the beginning of this year |
| 1:40.7 | after the insurrection, how Speaker Nancy Pelosi had said, let's do a 9-11 style commission. |
| 1:47.3 | She was pitching a bipartisan plan by May. A deal was reached between the top Democrat and Republican |
| 1:54.4 | on the House Homeland Security Committee and by later that month, they were passing it in the House, |
| 2:01.3 | 35 Republicans joined. There seemed to be some hopes this could push through the Senate, but by May, |
| 2:07.6 | this fell apart. There weren't enough Republicans on board. There's actually their first filibuster |
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